feels like home

I'm back! Say, have you ever had four nurses jab you seven times with an IV needle? Apparently I have extremely tough skin and extremely mobile veins. Also, my arms have so many shaved patches that they look like giraffe necks. I felt like a junkie offering up his shriveled arms for that last elusive stab.

Anyway. I'm a bit groggy right now, but I'm back home. The pain that's dogged me for months has vanished utterly. I've suffered a lot of nerve damage, which has reduced feeling in my feet and legs, such that I need a walker to get around. It feels as if my legs have fallen asleep and they're just about to get pins and needles - but they never quite get there. According to those fancy doctors, though, my nerves should slowly repair themselves over the next few months. Not fun, but I can lay flat on my back and straighten out my body now. I'll take a bit of numbness and a walker over pain any day.

A lot of you sent good thoughts, wishes and prayers my way over the last few days. Did your positive energy help me through my experience? Or was it my indomitable will? Only time will tell.

Comments

[blackbird]

Welcome home - enjoy the rest(ing).

[sweetney]

get well soon, and keep writing along the way! sending you positive energy, dogg.

[Saskboy]

Welcome back. Pun intended.
You always seemed like an upstanding citizen.
Remember, the good times are not all behind you.
Have you ever been so pleased to have someone stab you in the back?

[Mr, Saucy]

Glad to hear things went well. Just don't start dancing in the streets yet.

[Abigail Road]

So happy you're home! Don't worry, those nerves won't take too terribly long to get back to business!

[Jude]

I am so glad everything went well and that you are recovering in comfort.

[Koan]

Yay for the passing of pain! The loss of sensation might be less than ideal, but you sound like you're happy with the current trade, so that's grand.

I remember waiting for my nerves to sort themselves out, post-surgery. That was some fun shit! ;) Yes, it took time - certainly more than six months, maybe it was closer to a year - but, it did happen.

Different part of the body, I know, so take it with a pinch of salt, an overdose of movies, and a handful of snacks.

[Friday Films]

Whew! Glad you're okay. I was really worried about you.

[Helvetica]

Yay, hooray! Wooo! Enjoy the (comparative) painlessness and the eventual ***no painlessness at all***!

[SUEB0B]

That's fabulous. Being out of pain is such a joy.

[fatboyfat]

All good to hear. Enjoy.

[Kate]

Home and mostly pain-free: an abundance of good news. Congratulations on coming through all of this with so much fortitude.

[nathan]

glad to hear you're through it. Here's hoping for a speedy recovery.

[amy]

I wish I had something pithy and smart to say. I do not. I am happy for the good outcome and I wish you a speedy and complete recovery.

[witchypoo]

Hey! healing mojo is the bomb!
It helps to have a good patient.
Glad you are back home, and pain-free. "utterly gone" is what you want to know about pain.

[Not Fainthearted]

Feel better soon!

[Rebecca]

Did your positive energy help me through my experience? Or was it my indomitable will?

It might have been a crazy, wonderful combination of the two: an indomitable energy consisting of positive will.

I wish you well in your recovery, sir.

[i am the diva]

congrats mister 'node!

i'm glad to hear you're laying flat again!!

[Average Jane]

Hope you feel better soon!

[Scoobers]

Nice to have you back. Here's to short term disability and a speedy recovery!

[savia]

This is one of those times when the expression "knocked flat on his back" is a positive one.

I'm so happy for you, my friend.